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Thursday, July 14, 2016

Review: Skip Rock Shallows by Jan Watson

Title:Skip Rock Shallows

Author: Jan Watson

Category:Christian Fiction

Pub. Date: 05/18/2012

Publisher: Tyndale House Pub.

Format: Kindle

Pages: 400

ISBN#: B007V69EBC Series: Copper Brown #3

Synopsis:Lilly Gray Corbett has
just graduated from medical school and decided to accept an internship
in the coal camp of Skip Rock, Kentucky. Her beau, Paul, is doing his
residency in Boston and can't understand why Lilly would choose to work
in a backwater town. But having grown up in the mountains, Lilly is
drawn to the stubborn, superstitious people she encounters in Skip
Rock--a town where people live hard and die harder and where women know
their place. Lilly soon learns she has a lot to overcome, but after
saving the life of a young miner, she begins to earn the residents'
trust. As Lilly becomes torn between joining Paul in Boston and her love
for the people of Skip Rock, she crosses paths with a handsome
miner--one who seems oddly familiar. Her attraction for him grows, even
as she wrestles with her feelings and wonders what he's hiding.

My Review:Talk about a book I was not able to put down, and this one would be in the top five.

The cover portrays a young lady who seems to have or need all the comforts of home. Which in this era may not have been much more than most. But the harshness she is in for may soon be more than Lilly Gray Corbett is willing to handle.

I loved the fact that this book is set in a coal camp in Kentucky. Why you may say. I was raised in and around coal towns in West Virginia. My family has been from coal minors as far back as I could tell you. So some of the backwater, stubborn, superstitious, Mandriven town either grows on you or not. I mean not only men but the children and women are just the same way. Outsiders sometimes are not welcomed.

With all that being said, after Lilly proves herself in several different ways, will she finally be excepted or just tolerated for a lack of a better word. You will have to read for yourself.

So for the reasons above I will be giving (and if I could it would be higher), a big Breath of Life Rating of:

Five Clock Rating!!

Disclosure:
I did receive the above book in exchange for my honest opinion and
or review. But the Opinions are my own and yours may differ.

About the Authors:

Jan Watson won the 2004
Christian Writers Guild Operation First Novel contest for her first
novel, Troublesome Creek. Her other awards include a nomination for the
Kentucky Literary Award in 2006 and second place in the 2006
Inspirational Readers Choice Contest sponsored by the Faith, Hope, and
Love Chapter of the Romance Writers of America. Willow Springs and
Torrent Falls are the sequels to Troublesome Creek. Jan was a registered
nurse for 25 years at Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.
She incorporated her nursing experience in the hospital's mother/baby
unit into her novels. Jan resides in Kentucky.